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Wake up, mes bons amis
19701 h 57 min 7 secFilm: Documentary
Direction: Pierre Perrault
Production: Paul LaroseGuy L. CotéTom Daly
A film that explores the nature of nationalism and patriotism at many levels. It reveals something of the lost feeling of a French-speaking Canadian born and raised in the Canadian West, and of the similar attitude voiced by a Breton patriot angry at France. Between times, the film ventures into the backwoods of Québec to question Indigenous people, loggers, farmers, and fishermen about their sense of homeland. (A French-language film with English voice-over; originally released under the title A Ridiculous Kind of Country.)
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Subject categories
- Politics and Government > Colonialism and IndependenceEurope
- Social Issues > Foreign SocietiesIdentity and SurvivalQuebec Society
- Foreign Countries > France
- Francophone Communities > History and IdentityMinoritiesQuébec
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Land Claims and Rights
- Politics and Government - Canada > Québec Nationalism
- History > Canada 1946-1991
- Diversity > Identity
- Indigenous Studies > Identity/Society
- Social Studies > Social History
Credits
- director
- Pierre Perrault
- producer
- Paul Larose
- Guy L. Coté
- Tom Daly
- photography
- Bernard Gosselin
- Michel Brault
- sound
- Serge Beauchemin
- editing
- Yves Leduc
- re-recording
- Roger Lamoureux
- cast
- Léopold Tremblay
- Marie Tremblay
- participant
- Pierre Bourgault
- Maurice Chaillot
- Michel Delahaye
- Didier Dufour
- Louis Harvey
- René Lévesque
- Victor-Basile Raphaël
- Xavier Raphaël
- Laurent Tremblay